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Herman Miller tops Aeron Chair with Embody
If you thought the Herman Miller Aeron chair was the top-dog place to park your posterior, take a look at this. Now it's 14 years after that ultra-comfortable chair's debut, desk jockeys — time for Herman Miller to top itself with the new Embody.
Check out that high back to rest your noggin, with "flexors" strategically positioned to let your back rest easy. The seat cushion is specially designed, too, with 93 interconnected discs to move with you as you get squirmy. They're so advanced, its designers call them "pixels." Yeah! No wonder it took them over two years to design this throne.
You'll be able to order up an Embody in your choice of 13 colors and three finishes starting early in 2009. Too bad you could get two Aeron chairs for the price of one of these babies — it'll set you back a cool $1595. Ouch. However, sitting in an exquisite Aeron as I type this, I must say that if this Embody is even better than the Aeron, it's well worth it. The desk chair is the most important piece of writing equipment I own.
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By F at 5:33 PM ON 10/06/08
93 pixels in the seat cushion? For that price, it should be 1080p.
By Afterburner909 at 5:54 PM ON 10/06/08
Ahh...just as I was starting to forget why most of the world hates us.
By Traveler at 12:54 PM ON 10/07/08
I love my Aeron, hard to beleave that any office chair could be more comfy. Can't wait to give it a try.
By ambushu at 5:13 PM ON 10/07/08
Looks very cool...I'm sure it's very comfortable as well...
By rradiko at 5:16 AM ON 10/09/08
I can't help but have the impression that it looks like a chair designed for the needs of a physically handicapped person that works in a dentist's office or an orthopedic surgeon's office, and that this chair can also double as a furniture prop in some sci-fi movie. But that's only my opinion.
If it was cheaper and you could select them in a wider range of different color schemes, and if the chair's seat was wider to accommodate the growing girth of obese Americans, then hey, let's see how many middle-aged baby-boomer nerds would go out and plop down some serious purse plastic to buy one of these over-designed ass-nests?
But really, the chair looks alright...
By tmcd at 2:39 AM ON 10/11/08
Had a chance to see it sit on it at a backroom showing of the chair in Chicago in June....it blew me away... most comfortable chair ever made!!!
By Vincentlux at 1:40 PM ON 04/01/09
Nice chair indeed, nevertheless if i'm not wrong there is still some improvement margin on ergonomics vs. the Leap chair by Steelcase, which is 8 years old...
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